Pre-Requisites: As this is a hands-on lab, students should bring their laptop to take full advantage of the labs throughout the day sessions. Learn how to configure network, compute, storage and virtualization components then use UCS Director to orchestrate, provision, automate and manage the solution. IT transformation is a long journey that requires a close, sustained collaboration across the IT organization. For IT organizations that are transitioning to a private cloud architecture, the measure of success isn’t whether they’ve implemented an IT architecture that “works better”—it’s whether IT makes the business work better. By simplifying the design, build, and operational processes for private and hybrid clouds, Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite (ECS) helps you focus your time and energy on ensuring that your platform remains closely aligned with business requirements. Labs • UCS Director Concepts (vDC, Pod, etc.) • Managing Physical Resources, • Managing Virtual Infrastructure, • UCS Director Extensibility

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Cisco ONE Enterprise
Cloud (UCSD)
Hands-on Lab
18 may 2016
Michael Dupont, Consulting Systems Engineer
David Lefebvre, Consulting Systems Engineer
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Preparation for the lab
Thank you for attending Cisco Connect Toronto 2016, here are a few prerequisites to
ensure we all enjoy the session today:
• Please make sure your cellphones / laptops are set on silent to ensure no one is
disturbed during the session.
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can share with you the lab details.
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There is a lot of material in this hands-on lab. Don’t worry if you don’t have time to
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UCS
Manager
Cloud Services
Ecosystem of
Service Providers
SingleLicenseCisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite
3
UCS
Central
UCS Director
Prime Service Catalog
APIC
Intercloud
Fabric for
Business
Multi-Vendor Compute, Storage, and Networking
UCS Performance Manager
EnergyWise
IMC
Supervisor
Cisco
Metapod*
Virtual Application
Container Service
(VACS)
* - Out of the Box Integration of OpenStack into Prime Service Catalog is road mapped

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Lab Architecture

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Agenda
• Scenario 1: Unified Dashboard Overview
• Scenario 2: Add ESXi Host and Enable vSAN Workflows & HyperConverged Infrastructure
• Scenario 3: Self-Service Catalog for Predefined Workflow
• Scenario 4: Application Container Deployment
• Scenario 5: Bare Metal Provisioning using Bare Metal Agent Server
• Scenario 6: Analytics and Reports
• Scenario 7: Executing Predefined Workflows
• Scenario 8: Rebranding the UCS Director User Interface

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Scenario 1: Unified Dashboard Overview
• Purpose: introduction
• Why: to see how easy it is 
• Steps:
Log in as an admin and click on the various menus to see where things are at

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Scenario 2: Add ESXi Host and Enable vSAN Workflows
• Purpose: to run setup steps for a new host and for HyperConverged using VSAN
• Why: to get some hands-on with running catalogs and with infrastructure management
• Steps
Run the “Add ESXi host” catalog as demouser
Run the “Enable vSAN” catalog as demouser
Perform some additional configuration on the POD in the Converged Infrastructure view

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Scenario 3: Self-Service Catalog for Predefined Workflow
• Purpose: to see how self-service works for basic VM requests
• Why: to understand what an end-user would see
• Steps
Submit a VM request without approval using demouser
Submit a VM request as demouser with approval by admin
Note: users and groups have already been configured.
Users and groups, both Local as well as LDAP integrated are managed in the Administration menu.

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Scenario 4: Application Container Deployment
• Purpose: to see how to provision multiple VMs across several network segments
• Why: for teams that want to be able to deploy environments from a template
• Steps
Provision a new container as demouser
Examine the template used for the container creation

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Scenario 5: Bare Metal Provisioning using Bare Metal Agent
• Purpose: to see how to deploy an OS to a bare metal machine
• Why: the time consuming, physical server installation process, can be automated
• Steps
Enable VMRC to monitor the installation (new PXE request has already been done)
View the settings of Bare Metal Agent
Create a new PXE request (can be automated using workflow engine)
Change the network configuration of the host from the PXE VLAN to the production VLAN
Note: in the lab we are doing Bare Metal against a VM but all the same concepts apply to a physical server

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Scenario 6: Analytics and Reports
• Purpose: to take a look at the reporting capabilities of UCSD
• Why: useful for visibility and troubleshooting
• Steps
Run several tasks in order to populate data (not something you have to do in a real implementation)
View the VMWare map Reports
Open the Stack View for a VM

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Scenario 7: Executing Predefined Workflows
• Purpose: an introduction to UCS Director workflows
• Why: UCS Director’s orchestration engine is very powerful with over 1000 out-of-box tasks and
the gateway to automating your infrastructure
• Steps
Run the workflow “Create vLan in dCloud”
Run the workflow “Create SP and Power On”

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Scenario 8: Rebranding the UCS Director User Interface
• Purpose: to change the look of UCSD
• Why: so you can use your own logos to make the portal your own
• Steps
Change the logo of the logon screen in Administration/User Interface Settings
Change the theme style

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Access Cisco Communities
https://communities.cisco.com/
Select UCS Director
Scroll down and select UCS Director
Go to UCS
Technology
Cisco Data Center & Cloud Community
Compute & Storage
Unified Computing System (UCS)
Cisco Developed UCS Integrations

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